As those of you who have followed the launch of SearchCompliance.com know, we’ve been using our @ITCompliance account on Twitter to share news, find our audience, get the freshest compliance news and pass on information about what’s happening on our site. Like Marshall Kirkpatrick and Richard MacManus at ReadWriteWeb, I see considerable applications for journalism there. (Here’s how they use Twitter for journalism.)

I was reminded recently, however, that many CIOs and compliance professionals are not on the microblogging platform yet.

It makes sense to share compliance-related news and resources that we’ve found on Twitter with you all in the form of a weekly digest. If you haven’t followed us on Twitter, here’s what you’ve missed:

I will post digests more frequently if the volume of microblog posts (or “tweets”) merits it. You’ll certainly be able to follow our coverage of the Compliance Decisions Summit next week here and on Twitter. I’ll have a video camera and digital voice recorder, so expect to hear and see more from CIOs, security and compliance professionals.

We’re always looking for a way to feature our audience. If you’d like to write a case study of a difficult compliance-related business decision, technology implementation or user education opportunity, please write to editor@searchcompliance.com and let us know.

Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.

Hashtags were developed as a means to create “groupings” on Twitter, without having to change the basic service. The hash symbol is a convention borrowed primarily from IRC channels, and later from Jaiku’s channels.

hashtags.org provides real-time tracking of Twitter hashtags. Opt-in by following @hashtags to have your hashtags tracked. Similarly, Twemes offers real-time tracking without the necessity of following a specific Twitter account. Also, with their purchase of Summize, Twitter itself now offers some support of hashtags at their search engine: http://search.twitter.com

How does that extend to compliance? Simple. Just go to http://search.twitter.com and enter compliance. You’ll see a real-time reflection of the news, commentary and resources being exchanged on Twitter. You can subscribe to the compliance hashtag using RSS. If you prefer email alerts, you can also use TweetBeep to get an hourly update of whenever someone uses compliance in a tweet.

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